Graduation rates down in Calgary, below provincial average after pandemic disruptions: CBE yyc yycbe
At the same time, English language learners — students who don’t speak English as their first language at home — are also seeing lower graduation rates since the pandemic, and significantly lower averages than provincial rates.
Those gaps have also grown from the previous year, when 85 per cent of CBE English language learners graduated in five years during the 2020-21 school year, compared to 86.9 per cent provincewide — a gap of less than two per cent, well below last year’s eight per cent.Still, some of last year’s results are showing improvements from years dated further back.
Since COVID shuttered schools in March 2020, students have faced myriad disruptions, moving from online to in-person learning several times due to outbreaks and absenteeism among students and staff. Officials also said a growing number of high school students are taking more than the basic three years to graduate due to a number of challenges, including refugees arriving from wartorn countries, students facing serious mental-health challenges that affect attendance, or students simply needing to upgrade courses to meet increasingly difficult entry requirements for post-secondary programs.
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